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Definition: PRESSION |
PRESSIONNoun1. An endeavor to move. 2. The act of pressing; pressure. |
Date "PRESSION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
Crosswords: PRESSION |
| English words defined with "PRESSION": Precessional. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PRESSION": double-click. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PRESSION" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (force, lobby, lobbying, press, pressure, squeeze, strain, stress), German (pressure). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Haute pression (1986) | |
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Expression using "PRESSION": pression gate. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "PRESSION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 压力 (Pressure). (various references) | ||||
French | extraction par pression (oil pression extraction), cadre presseur (pression gate). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | essionpray | ||||
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Words ending with "PRESSION": antidepression, compression, decompression, depression, derepression, expression, immunosuppression, impression, misimpression, oppression, postdepression, reimpression, repression, suppression. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PRESSION": antidepressions, compressional, compressions, decompressions, depressions, derepressions, expressional, expressionism, expressionisms, expressionist, expressionistic, expressionistically, expressionists, expressionless, expressionlessly, expressionlessness, expressionlessnesses, expressions, immunosuppressions, impressionabilities, impressionability, impressionable, impressionism, impressionisms, impressionist, impressionistic, impressionistically, impressionists, impressions, misimpressions, oppressions, reimpressions, repressionist, repressions, suppressions. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PRESSION" (pronounced 'Pres"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ropiness. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-o-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: orpines, persons, poisers, prisons, prossie, seniors, snipers, sonsier, spinors, spinose. | |
-2 letters: enosis, eosins, essoin, irones, noesis, noises, nosier, opines, opsins, orpine, orpins, osiers, ossein, person, pisser, poiser, poises, ponies, posers, posies, prions, prises, prison, proses, repins, resins, rinses, ripens, rosins, seisor, senior, senors, sensor, serins, sirens, sniper, snipes, snores, sonsie, speirs, spiers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-o-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: aspersion, conspires, incorpses, isoprenes, nephrosis, overspins, poisoners, prisoners, prosiness. | |
+2 letters: aspersions, censorship, depression, dispersion, dripstones, expression, impression, inspectors, interposes, necropsies, oppressing, oppression, ownerships, patronises, pensioners, percussion, perfusions, permission, persimmons, persuasion, pervasions, portliness, precession, precisions, prelusions, previsions, processing, procession, professing, profession, progestins, repression, repulsions, responsive, ropinesses, shipowners, spoonerism, sportiness, supersonic. | |
+3 letters: aepyornises, angiosperms, aponeurosis, censorships, compressing, compression, coprisoners, depressions, desorptions, dispersions, expressions, fingerposts, hotpressing, impressions, interposers, introspects, ionospheres, mentorships, oppressions, outpressing, overpassing, parsimonies, percussions, permissions, personalise, personalism, personalist, personifies, persuasions, perversions, pinspotters, portionless, precessions, preclusions, prednisones, prehensions, premoistens, premonishes, pretensions, processions, professions, progressing, progression, prosceniums, proseminars, prosinesses, proteinases, pyranosides, redisposing, repositions, repressions, resorptions, responsible, responsibly, responsions, resumptions, ripsnorters, saponifiers, scorpaenids, senatorship, separations, serpiginous, sniperscope, spoonerisms, sporogonies, springhouse, subreptions, superposing, supersonics, supertonics, supervision, suppression, topdressing, vasopressin, waitpersons. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 45 53 53 49 4F 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . ... ... .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010011 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R E S S I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0045 0053 0053 0049 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5052395353434948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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